Political Violence and Crime Incident Report, Q2 2018

21 Aug 2018

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Political Violence and Crime Incident Report, Q2 2018

We are pleased to release our second quarter report on political violence and violent organised crime incidents around the world. This report draws upon and highlights the extensive incident mapping data and analysis that is available within CORE, the essential risk monitoring toolkit from Control Risks.

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